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authorGravatar Chris Xiong <chirs241097@gmail.com> 2019-02-10 11:16:07 +0800
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+ <li><a href="#"><h3 id="title">A short post on Cakewalk's death and my music production</h3></a></li>
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+ <li><a href="/blog/list/music/">music</a></li><li><a href="/blog/list/garbage/">garbage</a></li></ul>
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+ <li><a class="toctarg" href="#tocanch0">Death of Cakewalk</a></li><li><a class="toctarg" href="#tocanch1">My music production</a></li><li><a class="toctarg" href="#tocanch2">Future choice of DAW</a></li></ul>
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+ <h2 id="titleh" class="TText" style="font-wight:normal;">A short post on Cakewalk's death and my music production</h2>
+ <div id="datetags" class="TText" style="margin-bottom:1em;">2017-11-25<br>#music #garbage</div>
+ <hr><div id="article" class="TText">
+<article>
+<h2 id="tocanch0" class="tvis">Death of Cakewalk</h2>
+<div style="border:1px gray solid;padding:1em;">
+Cakewalk died.<br>
+Imagine your old trustworthy friend suddenly passed away.<br>
+It started as the feeling in a harsh winter.<br>
+Then there was anger.<br>
+But finally it all ended in pure voidness.<br>
+So long, Cakewalk!
+</div>
+<p>
+As stated by Gibson
+<a href="https://www.cakewalk.com/Gibson-Announcement">here</a>,
+Cakewalk was SIGKILL'ed, perhaps due to insufficient resources,
+or a dangling pointer. Anyway, it was finally killed, with all
+development and vending activity ended.
+</p>
+<p>
+I encountered Cakewalk in 2009, when I was skimming through an old
+magazine on computer software from 1998. There was an article about
+Cakewalk Pro Audio 5.0. Back then I was using a piece of software
+called "Music Maker DX" to edit MIDI files. After that I started
+using CWPA 9.0, which was, obviously, pirated. I used external
+synthesizer such as Timidity to produce audio files, because I had
+no idea about what I was really doing at that time.
+</p>
+<p>
+I thought CWPA 9.0 was the last version of Cakewalk, and that Cakewalk
+has long been dead, until somewhere in 2011 I found that they had
+renamed their product to SONAR. So I tried SONAR 6 (which is, again,
+pirated) and was fascinated immediately.
+</p>
+<p>
+In 2014, I started to try (pirated) SONAR X2 Producer. After a (really
+long) trial period of a year or so, in 2015, I finally purchased SONAR
+Professional from Steam. Soon after, I got the SONAR Platinum Lifepass,
+which hopefully is a penance of my earlier piracy. I made my major
+production during this period.
+</p>
+<p>
+And then it was the saddening story at the beginning of this article.
+</p>
+<p>
+I've tried multiple DAWs, namely FL Studio, Cubase and even OpenMPT
+(which is actually a tracker). Only SONAR deserves the words "it just
+feels right" for me. It is also my first time feeling saddened by the
+death of a proprietary software. If Microsoft ceased the development
+of Windows, I would be much happier.
+</p>
+<h2 id="tocanch1" class="tvis">My music production</h2>
+<p>
+I'm going to pause any music production of mine, not only to mourn the
+death of Cakewalk, but also due to my lack of time and inspiration.
+</p>
+<p>
+Most of my current works are arrangements and "reverse engineering"
+(「耳コピ」) of Touhou project's in-game music, with a few original
+but mostly unfinished works. Therefore, to review the basic music
+theory, regain my piano skills and to learn from the works of great
+predecessors might be the most appropriate choice for me. Although
+I have an extremely small range of audiences, it's my duty to make
+sure that they won't be pissed off after listening to my works.
+So I guess those steps are also a must before resuming my identity
+of a music producer.
+</p>
+<h2 id="tocanch2" class="tvis">Future choice of DAW</h2>
+<p>
+<b>Cubase</b> is another classic DAW. It's even older than Cakewalk.
+It has aggressive DRM measures, which makes Steinberg much safer
+from piracy than Cakewalk. Apparently that DRM is also the center
+of controversy over Steinberg. I've got many of Steinberg's instruments.
+</p>
+<p>
+<b>Reaper</b> looks nice and is fairly priced. Might have a try later on.
+</p>
+<p>
+<b>FL Studio</b>. Doesn't feel right for me.
+</p>
+<p>
+<b>OpenMPT</b>? ...
+</p>
+<p>
+<b><s>Vocaloid</s></b>. That's not a DAW.
+</p>
+<p>
+Contact me if you have other suggestions.
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